Posted May 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Hollow City by
Ransom Riggs Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2 Publisher: Quirk Books (2014)
Hardcover (400 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Library of Souls Also in this series: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Library of Souls Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.
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Posted May 14, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Beauty by
Robin McKinley Publisher: HarperCollins (1978)
Hardcover (247 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month,
2015 Fairytale Retelling,
2015 Re-Reading,
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A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father’s act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?
A gifted storyteller embellishes the classic tale, developing a new and very real world of her own in a love story that has all the wonder and magic of the fairy tale.
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Posted May 4, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 4 Comments
Arriving At Amen by
Leah Libresco Publisher: Ave Maria Press (2015)
eARC (192 pages)
Via: NetGalley Rating: Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
A former atheist makes sense of Catholicism and learns to pray by relying on the rosary and the rumba, avoiding sin and the sunk cost fallacy, and finding communion along Cartesian coordinates.
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Posted April 29, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Grave Mercy by
Robin LaFevers Series: His Fair Assassin #1 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012)
Hardcover (549 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Dark Triumph,
Mortal Heart Also in this series: Dark Triumph,
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Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
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Posted April 22, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Story of a Soul by
St Therese of Lisieux Publisher: St Anthony Messenger Press (1896)
Audiobook {6 hours and 10 minutes} (306 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
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Sharing memories from early childhood through her life as a Carmelite nun, Therese opens her heart to us. This bride of Christ reveals her passion and longing for union with God. Her simplicity is charming and we begin to believe that we can travel the path to salvation that she points out to us.
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